In a message dated 9/13/04 4:06:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wouter@voti.nl 
writes:

> IIRC the A-130 was epcifically designed to lolerate a *lot* of damage.
> 
When I was with Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta Ga., we saw quite a few C-130 
cargo planes (Same basic airframe for the Spectre) that were actually flown to 
the airbase located there at Lockheed's facility in Marietta and these planes 
were so riddled with holes that we couldn't understand how they were able to 
even taxi, let alone fly, but fly they did for quite a few miles so the guys at 
Lockheed could fix 'em back up.  This was during Vietnam and the 130's were 
used quite a lot over there.

However, a good hit with a missle would probably take one down.  Also 
consider that not only can the Spectre operate at night, with countermeasures but it 
can also still inflict a lot of damage from a fair altitude with some of the 
weapons on board.


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